This week I happened to come across yet another online Sunday sermon that blurs the distinction between the true Gospel and the false gospel of Roman Catholicism. This was the second sermon in the past month that did this, and it was from a different church. (See my post about the other church POPE FRANCIS IS A COMPASSIONATE MAN?) In this week’s sermon the pastor gave testimony of how he had witnessed to someone and they were wonderfully saved. The pastor rejoiced, and so do I, but then the pastor went on to say that the person told him that his mother was a charismatic Catholic and had been praying for him for years. Such a statement without further clarification leaves the hearers with the impression that to be a charismatic Catholic is to be biblically sound. It is not. When I was a charismatic Roman Catholic my prayers were directed to “Mary” via the rosary, and I became increasingly devoted to all the doctrines of Rome’s false gospel. If my Roman Catholic family had listened to that sermon it would have hindered my witness to them and encouraged them to stay in Rome. And everyone listening either in the congregation or online would have been presented with a distorted perception of Rome, hindering evangelism. After all, his Roman Catholic charismatic mother was praying her son’s salvation for years. So there you have it, pastors one after the other muddying the waters between the true gospel and the false. This is widespread. This is the day we are living in, and it is tragic.
2 Timothy 4
1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
PEACEMAKERS 
Yup, this betrayal of the Gospel via ecumenism with Roman Catholicism has permeated evangelicalism, even though the RCC unabashedly and unapologetically teaches salvation by sacramental grace and merit.
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I pray we never get tired of doing our little part in speaking out about this. It’s so important.
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Amen! There must be thousands of other Christians who are alarmed or at least puzzled by these accommodations and compromises and wonder what’s going on.
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True. I wonder how many keep silent because they don’t want to be cast out of their church.
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Yes, I’m sure there are many these days who are keeping silent out of fear or rationalizing to themselves that “the good outweighs the bad.”
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Cathy, it’s awful (to say the least) and I’m discovering all types of attitudes being expressed from the pulpit on these online Sunday services too. It’s quite a revelation and very disappointing – but maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. These indeed are the days we are living in… not too many sound preachers out there.
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No there aren’t too many sound preachers out there Elizabeth. Roman Catholicism referenced in a positive way still amazes me. I wonder at how so many pastors fail to identify a false gospel. Instead of warning they validate. How can you be a pastor without such fundamental knowledge?
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Also Jackie, the organizational church is run like a business. Money may have something to do with the behavior of these pastors.
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It’s all over the place! The devil is not going to entice us back into his lies!
Hallelujah!!!
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Yes, it’s is all over the place, across denominations! There may be persecution of those who believe as we do, even from the evangelical church.
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